
Breanne Johnson is an artist and self-taught new designer
living and working in Detroit, Michigan. She holds Bachelor of Art degrees in
Visual Art and Political Science from the University of Chicago. Born in
California, Breanne shares citizenship with the United States and the island
country Curaçao. Her design work focuses on phenomenological home items and furniture
that examines our relationship to the social and physical spaces we inhabit.
She enjoys thinking about the home, broadly, as an ever-changing and malleable
space. As both an artist and designer, Breanne identifies strongly as a
creative problem solver, and grapples with a diverse range of problems through
a diverse range of media; she has been, and remains, a carpenter, a painter, a
filmmaker, a performance artist, a host, a landscape artist, a space-maker, a
clothing designer, a printmaker, a metalworker, a ceramicist, a sculptor, a
writer, an archaeologist, a cook and a sandwich artist. She would like her
various projects and investigations to grant her the freedom to play. She
has exhibited work at Logan Center Exhibitions, Detroit Is The New Black, Forum Gallery, Goldner Walsh Garden and Home, Wanted Design, and
in the 2021 Cranbrook Chair Show. Breanne recently participated in Chop Wood
Carry Water residency in northern Illinois and is currently the Pophouse Design Fellow. An MFA candidate in
the 3D Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Breanne is slated for
graduation in 2023.
Contact: bree.i.johnson@gmail.com
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Contact: bree.i.johnson@gmail.com